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Issues Facing Missions Today: 6.
Remuneration for Ministry
We find in
Scripture at least six different views on remuneration for ministers. These involve different models for ministry,
each with a different focus, different metaphors for ministry, different things
being opposed, and different values.
What we learn from Scripture in examining these models is not the Biblical practice that we ought to
follow today but ways in which to discuss these matters as people of the Spirit
in our own contexts. What is required of
us is a good performance in our contexts of the various concerns and values
that we find in the various Biblical models for ministry. First Model: The Levitical, Institutional Religion ModelTexts: The PentateuchFocus: Centralized Temple Ministry for All
the PeopleMetaphor for Ministry: Wave Offering, Gift,
PriestsOpposition: Freedom of religionValues: Obedience and loyalty (hierarchical
roles), diligence (fulfilling duties in established programmes of ministry), honour…

Issues
Facing Missions Today: 5. Some Reflections on Translation and Theology in the
Case of the Phrase, ‘Son of God’
How shall we translate the phrase ‘Son of God’
when hearers may read this literally, as though one is claiming that God had a
literal son, instead of metaphorically? The
debate on this specific point raises not only questions about translation but
also about the nature of theology and its translatability into other contexts. I here argue that the interrelatedness of
such issues makes translation difficult, if not impossible at times. Indeed, readers of Scripture cannot be
passive hearers but must become interpreters. Christology: ‘Son of God’ as an Equivalent to ‘Messiah’?
The phrase ‘Son of God’ in Ps. 2.7 overlaps with what is
meant by the term ‘Messiah’—God’s anointed king. However, the terms are intentionally distinguished
in Jesus’ ministry and should not be equated in Bible translation. I will argue this point by looking only at
Mark’s Gospel.
In Mark, Jesus …